James M. McIntosh

James McQueen McIntosh (1828-7 March 1862) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The brother of Union general John Baillie McIntosh and the great-great-nephew of Lachlan McIntosh, McIntosh was killed while leading a division at the Battle of Pea Ridge in 1862.

Biography
James McQueen McIntosh was born in Fort Brooke, Florida in 1828, the great-great-nephew of American Revolutionary War general Lachlan McIntosh and the older brother of future Union general John Baillie McIntosh. Their father was killed at the Battle of Molino del Rey during the Mexican-American War, and McIntosh would attend West Point to follow in his father's footsteps; he graduated last in his class in 1849. He was a cavalry lieutenant in the American West when the Confederate States of America seceded from the United States in 1861, and he joined the Arkansas mounted rifles as a colonel after Florida seceded. McIntosh was impulsive and reckless, leading his men from the front, and he fought at Wilson's Creek in August 1861 before defeating an army of pro-Union Native Americans at Chustenahlah in December. In January 1862, he was promoted to Brigadier-General, and he commanded a brigade in Benjamin McCulloch's division at Pea Ridge in March 1862. He took command of McCulloch's division after McCulloch was killed by a sharpshooter, but he was struck and killed by a bullet less than fifteen minutes after McCulloch's death.